this latin textbook is forty chapters and they may as well have titled each one "and here's a new set of inflections"
aside from just the fact that I love the franks theirs was really interesting because it was the oldest written without heavy roman influence
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the burgundians and visigoths were older but very pwned by latin memes and neither lasted very long (to thus serve as a basis for evolving society) anyway
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but the franks practiced polycentric law and one of the first things they did when conquering any other tribe was get them to commit their customary law to writing
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the whole thing is this fascinating (well for me) like, alt-society, like it's the basis of our entire culture but its values and worldview are utterly alien
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Yes… that’s the fascination of the North-Germanic (Icelandic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon) stuff as well. That it’s incredibly alien, but also strangely familiar. Tolkien’s fascination with that queer mixture led to the LotR, apparently
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The earliest Anglo-Saxon material comes from just the time of the switch over from pagan values to Christianity, and it expresses the confusion that engendered.
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_The Battle of Maldon_ describes the heroic confrontation of a semi-Christianized English Earl vs. a pagan Viking invasion force.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/814314255050686464 …
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I have a "haha no but seriously" post I've been meaning to write comparing merovingian francia to ancapistan
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Maybe that will inspire me to explain _The Battle of Maldon_ as a positive model for near-future politics…
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Hmm… There’s a lot of pre-Christian (and presumably pre-significant-Roman-influence?) Icelandic material that discusses matters of law and governance in detail. (I haven’t read more than a tiny bit of it. But, in case relevant…)
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